A Mission To Boldly Go To Uranus And Neptune

Uranus and Neptune, the seventh and eighth planets, are largely a mystery — but that could change within the next two decades.

A study submitted to Arxiv by Amy Simon and Mark Hoffstadter, NASA veterans and experts on those planets, and Alan Stern, the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission, outlines a cost-effective plan to explore those planets — and maybe even visit a few new places on the way out.

The paper, the end result of a working group setting their sites on Ur